PA Environment Daily

JUNE 20, 2023

2015-011-L ). Read more here. -- CO2 Injection Wells: Senate Bill 831 (Yaw-R-Lycoming) would direct the state to apply for primary authority to regulate Class VI carbon dioxide underground injection wells from the U.S.

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Vermont Law

AUGUST 31, 2015

On May 24, 2015 Pope Francis used his. filed a landmark constitutional climate change lawsuit against the federal government, seeking a court order requiring the President to immediately implement a national plan to decrease atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide to a safe level: 350 ppm by the year 2100. encyclical.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Between 2015 and 2021, 274 North American oil and gas producers filed for bankruptcy with a debt load of $177 billion. Methane is more than 80 times as powerful at warming the planet over a 20-year time frame than carbon dioxide. . The bankruptcies were set in motion even before 2020.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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A Greener Life

MAY 9, 2022

The team analyzed how four possible future emissions scenarios might affect ENSO-related sea surface temperature and rainfall between 2015 and 2099. In the most sustainable future scenario they modelled, carbon dioxide emissions reach net zero around 2050 and then begin to decline by 2099.

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The Energy Law Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

By ratifying the 2015 Paris Agreement, [1] nations across the world made a commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by at least 40% by the year 2030. Carbon dioxide is one of the primary greenhouse gases found in the Earth’s atmosphere, accounting for 76% of global greenhouse gas emissions according to published reports.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Because of recycling, nearly 10 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions are avoided every year, or the equivalent of removing 2.15 billion to Pennsylvania’s gross state product, directly employed over 66,000 people, and contributed to almost 110,000 indirect and induced jobs in 2015.

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Physics World

MARCH 29, 2022

In 2015, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft made a shocking discovery, detecting a large amount of molecular oxygen in the coma of gas surrounding the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Now, however, a new analysis of the Rosetta data suggests that the 2015 observations are not that surprising after all. Staggered emission.

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The Energy Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

1] Although not limited to Class VI injection wells—which are those wells utilized for the injection and permanent sequestration of carbon dioxide—the proposed ordinance is clearly aimed at prohibiting carbon capture and sequestration operations within the parish. Welsh , 2015-1152 (La. Ordinance No. 3/9/16); 199 So.3d

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HumanNature

MARCH 24, 2022

For example, forests store about 30-40% of the carbon found on land, improve air quality, and even filter water. Forests are incredibly good at storing carbon, in both soils and plants. When forests burn, that carbon is released into the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse gases (mostly as carbon dioxide).

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A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

King calls for immediate testing and deployment of often-controversial carbon removal techniques to begin drawing down atmospheric greenhouse gases by tens of billions of tonnes per year. Human-caused climate change has run down the clock and soon there will be no time left to meet the goals set under the 2015 Paris agreement,” he writes.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

MW to 29 MW, enough clean power to reduce carbon dioxide emissions equal to taking 5,000 gas powered vehicles off the road. Since 2015, the amount of solar installed by nationwide K-12 schools has tripled and the number of schools with solar has doubled.

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ESA

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

An Urgent Call The Ecological Society of America (ESA) calls on world leaders attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP28) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), to pledge immediate action to reduce carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and other greenhouse gas emissions to limit rising global temperatures initially to 2.0⁰

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HumanNature

APRIL 14, 2022

Alarmingly, a drought in 2012 cost the agricultural industry $30 billion (Rippey 2015). In general, increased carbon dioxide from human activities will lead to higher temperatures. This unprecedented dryness has the potential to have many negative consequences throughout the US. Frontiers in Microbiology 8. Rippey, BR.

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Columbia Climate Law

MARCH 19, 2019

This week, the Sabin Center and a group of scientists with expertise on carbon capture and sequestration (“CCS”) technologies submitted comments on EPA’s proposal to weaken the CO 2 performance standards for new coal-fired power plants. These include the Boundary Dam facility in Canada and the Petra Nova facility in the United States.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 30, 2022

It agreed with settled science that carbon dioxide from the combustion of fossil fuels is the major source of greenhouse gases, and that climate change is real. Related Articles This Week: -- U.S.

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Academy of Natural Sciences

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Energy Information Administration, in 2015 more than 76 million American households (64%) used a central air-conditioning system, an increase from less than 66 million households (59%) in 2005. When seasons change, so do indoor temperatures. According to the U.S. And with increasingly irregular climate conditions, this number is only rising.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Ocean acidification is caused when carbon dioxide emissions get absorbed by the ocean, changing its chemistry. Sorry, but we failed to add you to the list. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763. Enter Your Email.loading. Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails.

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Physics World

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, since 2015, Space X has been launching satellites in low-Earth orbit that belong to the “mega-constellation” Starlink. It is estimated that about 60 Starlink satellites will need to be replaced each month, while 11-minute rocket flights into space emit 100 times more carbon dioxide than airline flights.

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A Greener Life

APRIL 11, 2022

C thresholds which were agreed upon by world leaders during the COP21 UN climate summit in 2015, GHG emissions would need to peak before 2025 at the very latest and be reduced by 43% by 2030. The scientists said that in the scenarios they assessed, in order to limit warming to the 1.5°C

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Acoel

JANUARY 18, 2022

The Pact also reset the target for achieving net-zero GHG emissions from the 2015 Paris Agreement’s focus on the end of the century to a much more aggressive goal of net-zero emissions “by about mid-century,” interpreted by most as 2050.

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HumanNature

MARCH 31, 2021

Figure 1: Size reference for atmospheric particles (US EPA 2016) and a general structure of freshly created black carbon. Direct Environmental Effects Did you know that black carbon is the second most important warming agent in our atmosphere behind carbon dioxide (CO 2 )? Arctic Council. June 25, 2020. link] Evans, M.,

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Law Columbia

MAY 4, 2023

Credit: Ilmi Granoff In September 2015, then Bank of England Governor Mark Carney gave a landmark speech on the “ Tragedy of the Horizon.” o C change by 2100 also implies net zero carbon dioxide emissions by 2050 leading to somewhat nearer-term implications. For example, a 1.5

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Vermont Law

JUNE 21, 2023

Now, almost a decade after AR5 and nine years closer to 2030 (a pivotal year determined by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement), the old consensus seems to remain but solutions are handicapped. Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide.

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Vermont Law

MAY 2, 2023

Now, almost a decade after AR5 and nine years closer to 2030 (a pivotal year determined by the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement), the old consensus seems to remain but solutions are handicapped. Some of what is to come may be provocative and contrarian; so, take a breath —but not too deep because the air is full of carbon dioxide.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

SS: My climate change research journey began in 2015 when I started my Ph.D. DM: To start, tell us a little about your doctoral research. Where did you begin your research journey with climate change and what are some of the biggest takeaways from your research? at UMass Amherst. Before that I had worked in other scientific fields.

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CEQA Developments

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Department of Fish & Wildlife (2015) 62 Cal. 4 th 204 (“ Center For Biological Diversity ”) (analyzed in my 12/2/15 post here ) and Golden Door Properties, LLC v. County of San Diego (2018) 27 Cal.App.5 5 th 892 (“ Golden Door ”) (analyzed in my 10/8/18 post here ).

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Law Columbia

JUNE 21, 2023

The combined impact of this litigation – preventing the emission of hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide and other destructive pollutants – arguably ranks this among South Africa’s most successful public interest litigation campaigns. South African litigators have had the benefit of timing and a late start.

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Vermont Law

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

He simply stated: “Who else is going to put carbon back into the ground other than farmers? know how to absorb the carbon dioxide (CO2). In order to keep up with demand for beef and leather, 21 million ha of deforestation has occurred in the Brazilian Amazon between 2000 and 2015 to support cattle. They know how to do it.”

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 16, 2023

Since that 2014 study, which laid the foundation of what is called climate source attribution science , UCS scientists have collaborated with Heede on two other studies that pinpointed the major carbon producers’ culpability for specific climate change-related trends. percent of total emissions. Licker et al. And the third is “gas exchange.”

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Vermont Law

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

to reducing their carbon emissions. In August 2015, the Obama administration announced the. which will implement national standards to govern carbon pollution from power plants. Nevertheless, in December 2015, 195 countries adopted an. carbon dioxide. jointly committed. Clean Power Plan.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 12, 2022

The subpoenas requested that they turn over key documents they failed to produce in response to the committee’s initial request, which focused on the period beginning in late 2015, when nearly 200 countries signed the Paris climate agreement.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Because methane has 28 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide and a shorter atmospheric life of only 12 years, immediate action to reduce methane emissions —including from agriculture—is critical to slow our warming climate, especially in light of expanding global populations and food demand. 2015 , Williams et al.,

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Legal Planet

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

There are different regulations and often different regulators for impacts from coal mining on public lands, private lands, carbon dioxide emissions from combustion, methane emissions from mines, particular emissions, sulfur dioxide emissions, etc. Fossil fuels are a case in point. Consider coal. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Solar panels generated almost 4 percent of electricity in the US in 2021, up from less than 1 percent in 2015. Still, over their lifetimes, solar panels emit 25 times less carbon dioxide equivalent per kilowatt hour than coal-powered electricity. Chemistry break!

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HumanNature

MARCH 8, 2022

Carbon naturally moves through the environment. If we follow a single carbon molecule, we could expect it to start in the air as carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is food for plants and they take it into their bodies through a process called photosynthesis. Nature Geoscience 8 , 441-444 (2015).

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Edouard Stenger

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Anaerobic digestion is a biological process happening naturally that breaks down organic matter in an airless environment, resulting in the generation of methane and carbon dioxide (among other things, see below). Carbon dioxide makes up to one third of biogas and could potentially be another revenue stream for operators.

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